Mood-Congruent

Mood-congruent describes thoughts, memories, beliefs, or psychiatric symptoms whose emotional content is consistent with a person’s current mood. In psychiatry, for example, delusions of extreme guilt or worthlessness may be mood-congruent with severe depression, while grandiose delusions may be mood-congruent with mania. Also see Mood-Congruency Effect and Mood-Congruent Self-Schema.